A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually…

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

To begin an affair of that kind now, and carry it on so long a time in form, is by no means a proper plan ... whatever assurances I may give her in private of my esteem for her, or whatever assurances I may ask in return from her, depend …

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the …

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art.